Dawson, G. Steven

Mr. G. Steven Dawson serves as an Independent Director of the Company. Mr. Dawson is a private investor who also serves as a founding partner and member of the Management Committee of SparrowHawk Holdings – PowerOne, LP, a private company that is assembling and managing a portfolio of institutional-quality industrial warehouse and distribution facilities located in the US primarily for the benefit of Canadian equity investors. He is also a managing director at Novus Merchant Partners, a Canadian firm where he focuses on public and private cross-border real estate opportunities. From 1990 to 2003 he served as the Chief Financial Officer of Camden Property Trust (NYSE:CPT) and its predecessors. Camden is a large multifamily REIT based in Houston with apartment operations, construction and development activities throughout the United States. During the period from 2011 to 2013, Steve served in various capacities, including serving as president, CEO and trustee, for a private Canadian REIT that owned manufactured housing communities in the US. Steve currently serves on the boards of Institutional Financial Markets, Inc. (AMEX:IFMI), a financial services firm with fixed income and structured credit securities trading operations in the U.S. and Europe, and Medical Properties Trust (NYSE:MPW), a hospital/healthcare REIT with acute care properties in the US and Europe. Steve holds a degree in business from Texas A&M University, where he serves on the Real Estate Roundtable of the Mays Graduate School of Business.

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